kore

noun1

1. •
   An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.

   • Ducat believes that all the kore plastic vessels wearing transverse himatia ending in stepped folds over the abdomen originate in Rhodes (1966: 72). — 1995

noun[plural only]1

1. •
   A people living on Lamu Island on the northern Kenyan coast.